New Works. “Raw and Exposed: Faces of Beauty”

In a society in which judgement rules; we often acclimate to the collective pressures and attempt to be “cookie cutter perfect”. Surface easily eludes reality, yet the true power of expression often rests underneath or hides within emotional layers below the surface. I feel the authenticity of rawness deserves to be seen at minimum; acknowledged and embraced at optimum. Our full spectrum of human emotion is a beautiful gift of life.

This series evolved with my own permission to allow the spontaneity of the moment to create the brush strokes that represent authentic raw emotions .

This body of work has the clear intention of exploring my deepest and most personal feelings. In my desire to see myself truly, to see my own inner ‘beautiful.” The more I authorized the freedom in these strokes, the deeper I found authentic expressions including, yet not limited to, desires, struggles and joys, strengths, weakness, fears, rage, and contemplative reflection.

My hope for this series of paintings is not only to review my personal reflection, yet also to permit viewers to perhaps open to experience their own layers, and to see a beauty in our common humanness – to accept the gift of emotional expression.
I have heard it said, that art is by people for people.